alanbwt on Nostr: “‘To be and not to be’ arise mutually. Beneath the contest lies friendship; ...

“‘To be and not to be’ arise mutually. Beneath the contest lies friendship; beneath the serious lies the playful; beneath the separation of the individual and the world lies the field pattern. In this pattern every push from within is at the same time a pull from without, every explosion an implosion, every outline an inline, arising mutually and simultaneously so that it is always impossible to say from which side of a boundary any movement begins. The individual no more acts upon the world than the world upon the individual. The cause and the effect turn out to be integral parts of the same event.”

— Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East & West